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Progressives Not Interested in the Good of the Country
Progressives, be they politicians, the rabid rank-and-file voter or the embarrassingly biased legacy media, are light-years removed from caring about the overriding good of the country. They care only about grabbing and retaining power, by any means necessary. Whether it’s rigging elections, pandering to fringe voting blocs, lying outright about economic and foreign policy issues, rewriting history, turning every single negative domestic occurrence (train derailments, school shootings, severe weather, product shortages, etc.) into an anti-Republican cudgel, progressives always look to gain political advantage and put their opposition in a negative light. What’s best for the country as a whole is never a consideration for them.
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Some recent examples:
The Norfolk Southern Ohio Train Derailment
The recent train derailment and subsequent release of toxic gases in East Palestine, Ohio was a truly disastrous event. Innocent people had their health impacted and their lives upended. But progressives stayed away from this event like the plague. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg avoided visiting for as long as he could. When the enormity of the disaster couldn’t be denied any longer, the entire progressive machine -- politicians and legacy media alike -- did their best to blame the accident on Republicans’ dismantling of Obama-era safety regulations.
That was an outright lie, of course, but it succeeded in making an impact on some of the casually attentive public. Progressives weren’t interested in helping the residents of East Palestine. Progressives were only interested in leveraging the accident to gain political advantage over Republicans.
Recent Mass Shootings
Predictably, progressives always go right to their favorite boogeyman: Gun control. “When will we learn? How much more will it take?”
No new gun laws would have prevented any of these shootings. The cause is far deeper, having more to do with the shifting/diminishing sense of personal responsibility, the distorted and totally unjustified feeling of entitlement amongst the young, and the growing dissolution of the traditional two-parent nuclear family that is no longer present to impart the time-tested values of right-and-wrong the way they did two or three generations ago. These are the major deep-rooted causal reasons of mass violence and band-aid gun law “fixes” will have no effect.
Enacting knee-jerk gun laws that restrict lawful gun ownership is akin to making it extremely difficult for qualified drivers to obtain a driver’s license and own a car, simply because some totally unrelated, irresponsible individual was drunk behind the wheel and killed someone. Regrettable though drunk driving deaths are, they are not the fault of either lawful drivers nor Honda.
Progressives don’t care. Hollering, “Ban AR-15s now!” grabs headlines and wins the votes of the uninformed. “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” as presidential advisor Rahm Emanuel said so famously early in Obama’s first term.
Weaponizing the Justice System
This one is particularly dangerous. Progressives do not care about the long-range, damaging precedent this sets for our legal and political systems. Part of why America functions as well as it does is because of the confidence that the citizenry has in the fairness of the electoral process and the equal and fair application of the law.
But progressives have turned that completely upside down in their misplaced zeal to garner short-term political advantage. With the astonishingly partisan and shockingly clueless Merrick Garland at the head of the DoJ, this administration is tagging school moms as “domestic terrorists” for wanting their kids’ education to concentrate on traditional academics and steer clear of inappropriate “adult” matter that has no place in the publicly funded 6th-grade classroom. The DoJ now arrests and jails political rivals to the current administration on the flimsiest of non-existent reasons, while completely ignoring actual felonious crimes committed by administration members, their families, and their political allies.
And the progressives’ legal weaponry extends all the way to our time-honored religious freedom, to the point where Catholics attending the traditional Latin Mass are put on a government watchlist and pro-life advocates defending their family from personal physical attack have their doors broken down by the FBI and are arrested.
It’s all fine with current-day progressives, if doing so intimidates, minimizes, marginalizes, and otherwise neutralizes any action taken by a conservative.
There are many other examples. Does wokifying the military with DEI and drag queen shows on military bases improve and strengthen the national security standing -- which is the military’s only mission -- of this country? No.
Does it help progressives’ election efforts with fringe voters? Yes.
Does establishing completely illogical and unobtainable requirements for EV (electric vehicle) ownership help the country, the environment, or the economy? No, obviously not. Mining for the rare earth metals used in EVs is far more destructive to the earth than safe, reliable American fossil-fuel extraction. The rare-earth materials and battery production comes from other countries, including Communist China, so it hurts our economy and makes us more vulnerable to and dependent on bad actors.
Assuming that progressives even know any of this (many are likely totally ignorant), would it matter? No. They think that pushing the Green agenda helps their short-term electoral power grab and that’s their end game.
Every public utterance, every policy move, every new regulation from today’s progressives is designed to further their ability to obtain and hold power and control the American populace. The closer one pays attention, the more apparent this is. “For the good of the country” never enters the picture.
J.D. Vance: Railroads Must ‘Pay Every Single Cent’ When They Set Off ‘Chemical Bombs’ in American Towns
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) says the railroad industry must “pay every single cent” when their trains derail and set off a “chemical bomb” in American communities, urging Republicans to get behind his legislation to increase public safety requirements for trains carrying hazardous materials.
In March, a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio — with a population of less than 5,000 — leaving chemicals spewing into the community’s environment. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources estimates that more than 43,000 fish and other aquatic animals were killed as a result.
Recent studies have found such high dioxin levels in soil in East Palestine that they may pose a risk of cancer. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost (R) has since filed suit against Norfolk Southern.
During a panel discussion with the nationalist-populist American Moment organization, Vance again highlighted his legislation with Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO), Marco Rubio (R-FL), John Fetterman (D-PA), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) that would, among other things, increase fines on rail companies when their trains derail and require them to notify local first responders when their trains are carrying hazardous materials.
Vance said he believes the legislation will pass the Senate and “may even get a majority of Republicans behind it.” From there, the legislation would go before the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials which is chaired by Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX), to whom Norfolk Southern’s political action committee (PAC) donated last year.
“The railroads, we’ve allowed them to socialize the cost of doing business on the people of East Palestine and similar communities,” Vance said:
If you, the railroad, have to pay every single cent when your train crashes and you basically set off chemical bombs in the middle of one my constituents’ hometowns, if you had to pay for that, you would respond to the public safety concerns much differently than the railroads currently do. But because a lot of that falls on the American taxpayer, and the Ohio taxpayer in this case, these railroads don’t conduct business the way that they should. Really, this is about basic fairness. If you’re going to cause the problem, you ought to pay for it. [Emphasis added]
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Major multinational corporations are not always aligned with the national interest. That is a fact of life and if you’re not willing to deal with it, I don’t think you’re interested in serious policymaking. [Emphasis added]
Conservative beltway groups, some funded by Norfolk Southern and the railroad industry and others linked to the Koch network, are lobbying to tank Vance’s legislation.
East Palestine, Vance said, has been hit just as hard economically as a result of the train derailment. Eventually, he said his office would roll out an economic aid package for the people of East Palestine.
“Think about the home values, people who have lived in their house for 40 years, their home was paid off, now it’s worth half of what it was worth two months ago,” Vance said. “The economic devastation, the effect on the tax base, the effect on the local schools is going to be with us for a long time.”
Short-term and long-term health, though, is still the most prominent issue for East Palestine, according to Vance. Today, there remains some 30,000 tons of dirt in the area that is considered toxic. The dirt has been dug out of the ground but still remains sitting in East Palestine.
“If you actually go to East Palestine and talk to people, they’re not worried that they’re going to take a sip of water and drop dead,” Vance said. “What they’re worried about is, what happens if their grandkids drink the water for the next 10 years, are they going to have weird cancers?”
C-SPANVance said that although there has been pushback on his legislation from Republicans with economic libertarian views, the base of GOP voters is “not cool with a no-give-and-take alliance with corporate America.”
“They’re sick of being used as pawns in a Chamber of Commerce agenda — that’s true on defense policy, that’s true on immigration policy, that’s true on a lot of things,” Vance said.
Americans overwhelmingly back reform efforts like those offered by Vance. A poll conducted last month found that 76 percent of Americans want to see more local, state, and federal oversight of rail safety measures to prevent derailments like the one in East Palestine.
As Breitbart News has detailed, Norfolk Southern’s influence in Washington, DC, is vast among both Republicans and Democrats.
Last year, PACs associated with Norfolk Southern donated nearly a million dollars to Republicans and Democrats as well as both parties’ leadership organizations, such as the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and the National Republican Congressional Committee.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Pittsburgh: Norfolk Southern Hit by Third Derailment in Two Months
It’s happened again. A Norfolk Southern train derailed in Pittsburgh on Saturday, the third time one of the company’s rail units has come adrift in eight weeks.
The empty five-car train derailed between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Saturday morning in Pittsburgh’s West End, public safety officials detailed in a news release:
This morning, approximately five empty steel cars derailed near Pittsburgh. There is no hazardous material involved, and the cars are upright. There were no injuries reported. Norfolk Southern crews and contractors are on-site and have begun clearing the cars.
To access the site, we may have to stage some equipment on nearby roads – we appreciate the community’s patience while this work happens.
Saturday’s incident comes about two months after a Norfolk Southern train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, about 50 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
That derailment leaked hazardous chemicals and triggered an investigation of Norfolk Southern’s safety practices.
WATCH: “Controlled Release” of Toxic Chemicals After Catastrophic East Palestine Train Derailment
Mohawk Valey Joint Fire District via StorfulThe U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Norfolk Southern on March 31 on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, alleging Norfolk Southern violated provisions within the Clean Water Act.
“When a Norfolk Southern train derailed last month in East Palestine, Ohio, it released toxins into the air, soil and water, endangering the health and safety of people in surrounding communities,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said at the time.
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